FOLLOW THE READER: Paris brasserie find

Published 4:00 am, Sunday, July 28, 1996

We would like to recommend a restaurant in Paris called Brasserie Port Royal, at 2 Boulevard Arago in the 13th Arrondissement. The restaurant sits between two tree-lined streets near the intersection of Boulevard Du Port-Royal and Avenue Des Gobelins. It can be reached either from Metro Gobelins or, as we did, by a 15-minute walk through the neighborhood, heading southeast from the Pantheon.

The food is excellent and the staff is friendly and attentive. The patrons are mainly local residents. The cost for a cocktail, prix-fixe dinner, wine and coffee was around $30 per person. We went back for a second visit. Phone: 011-33-1-43-31-29-00, fax 011-33-1-45-35-25-91. Credit cards accepted. Steve Ericsson and Benjamin Francis San Francisco